The ugly controversy over Spore’s DRM has had people talking, and Will Wright, the game’s creator, is finally one of them. Kotaku asked what he thought about the whole situation:
It was something I probably should have tuned into more. It was a corporate decision to go with DRM on Spore. They had a plan [...]

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EA is positioning Spore to be a big-seller this year, but just how successful will the game be? Colin Sebastian, analyst at Lazard Capital Markets, is the first to try to give it a number: 2 million.
Sebastian’s guess is in tune with EA’s own expectations that the game will be a blockbuster. [...]

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Famed designer Will Wright has dubbed the E3 show “the walking dead.”
The man responsible for The Sims and the upcoming Spore game added to an increasingly negative sentiment in the games industry claiming the E3 convention has outlived its usefulness by evolving into the low-key event from the big, brash show it was previously.
“I [...]

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The tubes of the Internets this summer was filled with horrifying and disgustingly explicit pictures and videos of monsters created with the free Spore creature creator. Though these creatures, often referred to as “sporn”, have been removed from the official Sporepedia, the game’s creator Will Wright can’t help but be impressed with what some [...]

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Series creator Will Wright has revealed that EA wants to turn upcoming life simulator Spore into a feature film and a television show.
“With Spore, we’re looking way outside the game space, such as TV, movies, etc,” he said in an interview to Reuters. “We’re basically planting the seeds to spread Spore out to a [...]

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